Top Food and Beverages Startups in 2024

MealMe, Inc. is building Plaid for Food Ordering, connecting consumer applications to the POS of restaurants and grocery stores our Inventory and Ordering API. MealMe has invested the past 5 years into developing AI technology that pulls data from and injects orders to 1M+ stores in the US and Canada, totaling 700M+ unique products.

Afresh is on a mission to reduce food waste and increase access to nutritious food globally by transforming the fresh food supply chain. Our AI-powered solutions optimize the multi-trillion-dollar grocery industry's food ordering, production, and merchandising processes. We built the first platform capable of handling all of Fresh food’s complexities. We are relentlessly focused on helping grocers reduce waste, increase profitability, and bring better, fresher food to their communities. Afresh is currently deployed in hundreds of grocery stores across the United States and is on track to reduce 30 million pounds of food waste per year with our existing customers alone. By 2021, we're aiming to reduce food waste by a quarter billion pounds per year. We are a passionate team united by our mission to make an impact. As an Afresh employee, you’ll own meaningful work that will challenge you and change the future of how fresh, nutritious food makes its way through the supply chain. We hope you’ll join us!

Changing the way the world thinks about food delivery is what we’re all about. That’s why we love bringing amazing restaurant food to people like you – whether it’s juicy burgers, fiery curries or fresh poké bowls. It’s been a whirlwind of a journey since our launch in 2013 – we’re now in 12 countries and over 200 cities, with stylish headquarters based in the heart of London. As a food obsessed, friendly bunch, we enjoy brainstorming ideas to solve business challenges – and we’re not afraid of making great ones happen fast.

IF you want to: “Change lives. Change organizations. Change the world.” (Stanford GSB motto) AND get that: “… companies that are successful are the ones who create MEANING.” (Guy Kawasaki of Garage Technology Ventures), then please read on. Lilly’s authentic first entrant solution to the health crisis arising from poor eating habits is a keenly focused product offering consisting of a few simple high quality, healthier, appealing and tasty old world charm ITALIAN “snack” foods as found in a typical small Italian bread bakery shop (panificio) on a retail take-out basis (NOT restaurant), and service that connects with customers. Simple and inviting yet elegant Italian store design / panache, and emphasis on social sustainability will position Lilly’s as a compelling healthier “SLOW FOOD” alternative to “fast food” inspiring customers with better eating habits. We will do our part to combat poverty and income inequality by paying employees a living wage (social sustainability).

Partender, currently featured on Paramount Network's "Bar Rescue" with Jon Taffer, reduces the time it takes owners & managers to do bar inventory from a frustrating 6-24 hours to 15 minutes. We do this by digitizing the crazy, archaic paper-pen-clipboard process into a few taps and swipes on any Android, iOS, or web-enabled device. As a result, you can inventory as often as you count the cash in the register - reducing the 23% industry shrinkage, ordering smarter, and creating more successful beverage programs. In just 90 days of weekly use, Partender’s 15,000+ clients experience: • 6-8% Increased Profitability to your Beverage Program • 10-20% Reduction in Cost of Goods Fluctuation • 20-40% Reduction in Value On-Hand After every inventory, Partender instantly emails you a full inventory report and your Purchase Orders, which you can now send straight to your rep via Partender's portal. Cloud-based data analytics online show you what's selling the best/worst, what your dead stock is, and what you're low on, so you never run dry and miss a sale.

Redsip is the world’s first creator platform returning true fans to small and medium businesses of the global wine industry. If you are a creator or small business who wants to run profitable events, we help you kickstart your event at ZERO cost. If you are passionate about lifestyles around wine & dine, join the community today on our app, iOS or Android (Download here: qrco.de/bbQSns)! Redsip is home to the world’s wine lovers and a place where they can remember, appreciate, explain, and relive every wine experience at the touch of a button. Backed by 50+ top-notch VCs and angel investors globally, we are building a sprawling data network through our social media platform to disrupt and nourish the ancient and massive $370B global wine industry.

Good Eggs makes it easy to eat well. We're an online grocer that delivers a curated set of the best groceries: local & organic produce, sustainable meat and fish and the staples you need. Order from anywhere (desktop or mobile), anytime and we'll bring it to your door, 7 days a week. Good Eggs is highly differentiated, intent on building a durable, profitable company and is well on their way to capturing a big share of the enormous grocery category ($1 trillion) as it rapidly shifts online and towards “good” food. In December 2015, Good Eggs hired a new CEO, Bentley Hall, who has a long track record of successfully scaling mission-driven consumer brands. The team has shown exceptional signs of momentum on their core priorities ever since.

We're trying to help create the ultimate dining experience. We're starting by incentivizing you to try the best tasting food at a restaurant. Try a top dish and earn a 30% credit to come back to the restaurant. First visit? Earn an additional 30% for a total of 60% if you order a top dish on your first visit. On future visits order new top dishes to earn an additional 30% credit to come back again! We also help you find the best food that meets your dietary restrictions. We're also a Pandora of Food, which can recommend food based on the flavor profile you like and how that food tastes (sweet/meaty/salty/spicy/bitter). We also keep track of portion size, how nice the presentation is for food, and many other features no other website has!

Planet Cents will be the world’s largest sustainable vetted products and services marketplace, serving consumers, organizations, and our planet. A marketplace with a mission of reversing climate change! Unlike any marketplace in existence, we'll have everything from bamboo toilet paper to recycled furniture to green architectural and landscaping services, to CSR and ESG consultants, and more. Organizations can offer their customers, employees, partners, and suppliers Climate Action as a Consumer/Customer, Employee, Partner, and Supplier Benefit, Gift, Incentive, Recognition, and Reward. We refer to all monetary transactions as "Planet Cents"™ - an intangible currency for our planet. Our organizational clients may do the same. (This is not an actual currency or an NFT, but simply a brand for financial amounts.) What does it help customers do? Organizations: ● Attract and retain customers, employees, investors, partners, and suppliers ● Obtain a competitive edge ● Demonstrate measurable and meaningful sustainable actions ● Save time and money with a one-stop sustainability solution ● Feel satisfaction in leaving a meaningful legacy for current and future generations Consumers: ● Save time and money with a one-stop sustainability solution ● Show they are taking action to save our planet ● Feel good in leaving a meaningful legacy for current and future generations We are currently at the seed stage and looking for pioneering planet lovers to help birth our vision into reality! WATCH OUR INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW VIDEO: youtu.be/YpiOTWK706A

phoodE enhances the relationship between food masters and food lovers through our wholesale artisanal food marketplace by minimizing burdensome operational tasks, creating marketplace transparency and providing relevant business analytics to help run more profitable businesses. We allow business owners to get back to their passion of creating and serving fantastic food to their customers. For buyers, like specialty food stores, purchasing, collections and delivery scheduling are managed through a single online portal. Invoices are automatically generated/categorized/filed, bills are scheduled and deposited directly to the seller. By automating and centralizing key operational functions, phoodE helps buyers reduce costly errors, save time and increase profitability. For sellers, our order processing and customer analytics reports allows businesses to be confident that they’ve accurately taken orders, helps them better forecast demand and increases revenue through site generated sales.